--So, committing myself to
the mercies of the Almighty, who has led me through so many strange
scenes of terror and affrightment, to this happy, yet awful moment, I
will wish you, my dear parents, a good night; and though you will not see
this in time, yet I know I have your hourly prayers, and therefore cannot
fail of them now. So, good night, good night! God bless you, and God
bless me! Amen, amen, if it be his blessed will, subscribes
Your ever-dutiful DAUGHTER!
Friday evening.
O how this dear excellent man indulges me in every thing! Every hour he
makes me happier, by his sweet condescension, than the former. He pities
my weakness of mind, allows for all my little foibles, endeavours to
dissipate my fears; his words are so pure, his ideas so chaste, and his
whole behaviour so sweetly decent, that never, surely, was so happy a
creature as your Pamela! I never could have hoped such a husband could
have fallen to my lot: and much less, that a gentleman, who had allowed
himself in attempts, that now I will endeavour to forget for ever, should
have behaved with so very delicate and unexceptionable a demeanour. No
light frothy jests drop from his lips; no alarming railleries; no
offensive expressions, nor insulting airs, reproach or wound the ears of
your happy, thrice happy daughter.
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